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⁶¹ Ashnin et al., Repressirovannaia, 88–93.

⁶² Ibid., 110–19, 125–30.

⁶³ Gubaidullin stayed in Kazan, Tatarstan until 1936. His return to Baku must be related to his involvement in this project. Similarly, Zifel'dt-Simumiagi moved from Tbilisi to Baku in December 1935. The time of their return to Baku before the resolution of the Central Committee of the VKP(b) on the Zhdanov commission, and the resolution of the AKP(b) on Azerbaijani history suggests that they were informed by the project of writing national history for Azerbaijan in December 1935. For the time of their return to Baku see Kerimova, Iz istorii, 357, 389.

⁶⁴ ARPİİSPİHDA, 1-74-416-18, 19, 87, March 15, 1936.

⁶⁵ ARPİİSPİHDA, 1-74-427-58, June 6, 1936.

⁶⁶ ARPİİSPİHDA, 1-74-427-59, June 21, 1936.

⁶⁷ ARPİİSPİHDA, 1-74-433-316, August 11, 1936.

⁶⁸ ARPİİSPİHDA, 1-74-444-168, October 22, 1936.

⁶⁹ A Soviet term used for the young appointees, who were trained, nurtured in the first two decades of the Soviet rule. For the biographies of the editors of the new history Isag Dzafarzade, Aleksei Klimov and Zelik Iampol'skii, see Kerimova, Iz istorii, 372–3, 416–17, 541.

⁷⁰ Dzhafarzade, I., Klimov, A.A. and Iampol'skii, Z.I., eds., Istoriia Azerbaidzhanskoi SSR uchebnik dlia 8 i 9 klassov (Baku, 1939).Google Scholar

⁷¹ Dzhafarzade et al., Istoriia Azerbaidzhanskoi, 4; on language, 14–15.

⁷² “Dekada azerbaidzhanskogo iskustva,” Bakinskii Rabochii, April 5, 1938, 1.

⁷³ The dekada was organized April 6–16, 1938. “Dekada,” Bakinskii Rabochii, April 18, 1938, 2.

⁷⁴ This anecdote was conveyed to me by Emeritus Prof. Süleyman Aliyarlı of Baku University in 2007.

⁷⁵ V.V. Bartol'd, “Mesto Prikaspiiskikh Oblastei v Istorii Musul'manskogo Mira,” in Bartol'd, Sochineniia, ii/1: 656.

⁷⁶ Conquest, R., ed., The Politics of Ideas in the USSR (London, 1967), 8–9.Google Scholar

⁷⁷ A similar gap can be observed in Tatar and Chuvash case, after 1944, when to construct a link between Tatars and the Golden Horde was forbidden by the Central Committee of the VKP(b). For this issue see Shnirelman, V.A., Who Gets the Past?, 7, 22–4.Google Scholar

⁷⁸ “Khronika,” Istorik Marksist 3 (1939): 213.Google Scholar

⁷⁹ Istoriia Azerbaidzhana kratkii ocherk (Baku, 1941)Google Scholar.

⁸⁰ Ibid., 17–19.

⁸¹ Ibid., 17–19.

⁸² Ibid., 19.

⁸³ Ibid., 21–31.

⁸⁴ Ibid., 31.